About Cherry

Synopsis

The eighteen year-old Angeline raises money with a session of naked pictures and leaves her alcoholic and dysfunctional parents fleeing to San Francisco with her friend Andrew. They rent a room in the apartment of the gay Paco and Angeline finds a job in a strip club and Andrew in a bookstore. Soon Angeline has a love affair with the drug-addicted lawyer Frances and joins the adult industry making porn. Meanwhile the lesbian director Margaret becomes obsessed with her.

The eighteen year-old Angeline raises money with a session of naked pictures and leaves her alcoholic and dysfunctional parents fleeing to San Francisco with her friend Andrew. They rent a room in the apartment of the gay Paco and Angeline finds a job in a strip club and Andrew in a bookstore. Soon Angeline has a love affair with the drug-addicted lawyer Frances and joins the adult industry making porn. Meanwhile the lesbian director Margaret becomes obsessed with her.

Movie Reviews

Not sexy, Not dramatic. Not much of anything at all.

"About Cherry" does try hard to deliver, but it just doesn't punch hard
enough to make a lasting mark.

The movie trots ahead at a fairly slow, but steady, pace, which makes
the movie seem to go on for a very long time. Especially where there
aren't any particular peak moments in the movie.

"About Cherry" is about a young girl who leaves her dysfunctional
family behind and moves to San Francisco with her friend. Here in the
new town she starts making pornography for a living and earns good
money, without heeding the dark side of her job. With her family ties
and friendships on the line, Cherry balances a fine line which could
easily tip her over.

The story is average, although it is quite painted out in stereotypical
aspects, and it is to the point where it starts to become a daytime
soap show; alcoholism, pornographic business, drug abuse, family
problems, and so forth.

The problem with "About Cherry" is the characters in the story, as they
are unfathomably one-dimensional and just doesn't really show much
personality or give you enough of them to make you care. You just sit
throughout the entire movie with a shrug and occasional shake of the
head.

Be warned that there is an excessive amount of nudity and sexual
references in the movie, obviously as the movie does revolve around the
pornographic industry. Personally, I didn't care much for it, because
it was done to the point where it was too much, bordering on being
softcore pornography at times.

Personally, I did find that most people in the movie did fair enough
jobs with their given roles, but only a couple of them managed to stand
out in the movie, and those were Dev Patel (playing Andrew), Heather
Graham (playing Margaret) and Lili Taylor (playing Phyllis).

I am sure if you are fans of anyone in the movie, then you might find
some greater enjoyment in this movie, or if you have some kind of
fascination with the way the pornographic business works, then this
might be something for you. But if you are watching this for
entertainment, as I did, then you will not walk away with a 'wow'
sensation, because the movie just doesn't rock the boat.

Reviewed by R H 2 / 10

Rotten Cherry

A movie about a hot young woman getting into the porn industry, staring
James Franco and Dev Patel? Can't go wrong, right? Wrong!

What I liked: I liked the fact that without watching porn, I got to see
an amazingly beautiful Ashley Hinshaw tease the camera, have sex
multiple times, show her breasts, and play with herself. I enjoy any
movie where young people spontaneously leave the town they have spent
their whole lives in and hit the road with only the clothes on their
back. My favorite part of the film was the fact that it was almost a
feminist movie; at the very least it had speckles of feminism. Cherry
is left and called a disgusting whore by a man (James Franco) she was
falling in love with, called a huge disappointment by her mother, and
loses her best friend because of how she has chosen to make money. A
woman exercising control over her own body scares the living poop out
of 95% of us men, but Cherry doesn't care too much about what people
think.

I can write pages upon pages about how bad this movie was, but I'm
getting bored and feeling suicidal just from these short paragraphs.
After posting this review, I will do everything in my power to erase
the memory of this film, in order to still have some respect for James
Franco.

Reviewed by Pinku_Eiga 3 / 10

Shallow, lifeless...

I think this is the most shallow film I have ever seen. "About Cherry" is about a bunch of one dimensional people dealing with the most artificial, superficial problems imaginable. Angelina runs away from an alcoholic mom and dad to become...a porno star, yawn. The entire cast is soap opera beautiful, and the performances are mostly soap opera quality, with the exception of Dev Patel, who's talents are wasted in this bomb. How did he even wind up in this thing? James Franco, (who I greatly admire) will do anything for a laugh or a paycheck obviously. Here he plays a dope addict in lust with the porn actress, yawn. "About Cherry" is an indie film, gone horribly wrong. Obviously directed by a horny, younger man, judging by the amount of cheap nudity and (un)erotic lesbian story lines. There is not one moment of this film that feels real, and not one character that is remotely interesting or believable. But Cherry is hot and shows her boobs..a lot.